I guess this could be the thread for anyone who wants to learn another language... I myself am struggling with a poor French (my biggest disgrace).
Perhaps I may be a sucess in languages among most of my peers, due to my excellent English. But it was because I started to be educated in English at 6 yrs of age. By 3 my mom had already taught me to read and write in Spanish and basic arithmetic, and by 6 I started at a distance school (Puerto Rican education is in the stone age, am afraid... no school is even familiar with the concept of someone learning to read before 6) in the states whose entire curriculum was in English.
Since we lived in a coastal town, where many there were many foreign ship owners, I got to have many American friends of my age at that moment, and perhaps that helped my practice.
I don't know... lately I've had dreams where I am capable of talking in English... so I guess I know my bit of it.
Spanish has lately become a world language. Perhaps one of the most curious parts is American passports. My parent's passports from the 1980s were in English and French. My passport nowadays (issued in 2000) is in English, Spanish, and French.
Spanish has around 400 million speakers, and English has 600 million. The two most spoken European languages.
According to the Cervantes institute of the Spanish tongue, Spanish has become almost an official language in certain regions of the USA. And I am not stranger to that. We joke here that in Miami, you have more chances of being understood in Spanish than in English.
At the same time I am interested in if there are other Spanish speakers around here.
Perhaps I may be a sucess in languages among most of my peers, due to my excellent English. But it was because I started to be educated in English at 6 yrs of age. By 3 my mom had already taught me to read and write in Spanish and basic arithmetic, and by 6 I started at a distance school (Puerto Rican education is in the stone age, am afraid... no school is even familiar with the concept of someone learning to read before 6) in the states whose entire curriculum was in English.
Since we lived in a coastal town, where many there were many foreign ship owners, I got to have many American friends of my age at that moment, and perhaps that helped my practice.
I don't know... lately I've had dreams where I am capable of talking in English... so I guess I know my bit of it.
Spanish has lately become a world language. Perhaps one of the most curious parts is American passports. My parent's passports from the 1980s were in English and French. My passport nowadays (issued in 2000) is in English, Spanish, and French.
Spanish has around 400 million speakers, and English has 600 million. The two most spoken European languages.
According to the Cervantes institute of the Spanish tongue, Spanish has become almost an official language in certain regions of the USA. And I am not stranger to that. We joke here that in Miami, you have more chances of being understood in Spanish than in English.
At the same time I am interested in if there are other Spanish speakers around here.